Lipstick pig’ row hits Obama – Americas, World – The Independent
“Enough!” Senator Obama said yesterday, interrupting a speech he was giving on education. “I don’t care what they say about me but I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phoney outrage and Swift Boat politics. Enough is enough.”
The controversy had begun when Mr Obama engaged in a lively attack on the Republicans’ newly-minted mantra of bringing “change” to Washington politics. He likened it to trying to put lipstick on a pig. “It’s still a pig,” he said to loud applause from members of the audience who may have assumed he was referring to Governor Palin.
Last week Mrs Palin electrified the Republican convention by improvising a joke about being a hockey mom: “What’s the difference between a pitbull and a hockey mom? Lipstick.”
Lipstick pig’ row hits Obama – Americas, World – The Independent
BBC NEWS | Americas | Obama rejects ‘lipstick’ charge
“The McCain campaign would much rather have the story about phoney and foolish diversions than about the future,” the Illinois senator said. Republicans may well try to keep the controversy going, although one difficulty for them is that John McCain has himself used the offending phrase, our Washington correspondent says. Mr McCain had used the same analogy to criticise a health care plan presented by former Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton last year.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Obama rejects ‘lipstick’ charge
Putting Lipstick On A Pig : NPR
Election 2008 Putting Lipstick On A Pig [3 min 29 sec]
The phrase “lipstick on a pig” is commonly employed by politicians including Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, Vice President Dick Cheney and Rep. Charles Rangel. Joel Salatin, a farmer from Swoope, Va., talks about what actually happens when one attempts to put lipstick on a pig.